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More than 100 UNRWA staff helped Hamas carry out Oct. 7 attack: federal watchdog

Nypost · 🇮🇱 public Israel · · 539 words · By Josh Christenson
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More than 100 UNRWA staff helped Hamas carry out Oct.

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More than 100 UNRWA staff helped Hamas carry out Oct.

Why it matters

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Add The New York Post on GoogleWASHINGTON — More than 100 staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees have been referred for suspension or debarment from taking US taxpayer dollars after a federal watchdog found they…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 17 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who chairs the Intelligence Committee in the upper chamber, and 24 Republican senators called on the Trump administration last month to “fully dismantle UNRWA” and eliminate it from the United Nations’ budget.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “Other principals involved in the attack facilitated communications or worked in schools that let Hamas operate “anti-tank positions” and tunnels beneath the facility.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to specifically confirm the claim regarding principals facilitating communications or tunnels beneath facilities.
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Claim 3: “Among the individuals referred were UNRWA school principals, teachers, security personnel, attendants, psychosocial counselors, and medical professionals”
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While the general probe into UNRWA staff is corroborated, the specific list of roles (principals, teachers, security personnel, etc.) is not explicitly detailed across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though it aligns with the context of the reports.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 14, 2026 ... UNRWA, the United Nations agency established to provide relief and services to Palestinian refugees, is now at the center of a sweeping US ...
https://www.facebook.com/StandWithUs/posts/unrwa-the-united-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 13, 2026 ... The UN agency for Palestinian refugees dismissed 70 employees this week following accusations from Israel and NGO UN Watch of Hamas ties. UNRWA ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZixZRcEdGL/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel, according to the US government's oversight body responsible for monitoring American foreign assistance ...
https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/06/09/us-federal-watchdog-fi…
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Claim 4: “The US Agency for International Development’s Office of Inspector General (USAID) submitted 101 more names for debarment or suspension based on their “participation” in the attack that killed 1,200 in Israel — including 46 US citizens — or “affiliation” with Hamas’ military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades.”
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Multiple sources specifically mention the number 101 and the basis of participation in the attack or affiliation with the al-Qassam Brigades.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Many states began to intervene against the Islamic State (IS), in both the Syrian civil war and the War in Iraq (2013–2017), in response to its rapid territorial gains from its 2014 invasion of Iraq, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_against_the_Islamic_State
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... A teacher and Hamas soldier with orders to bring two anti-tank missiles to a prescribed location during the October 7 terror attacks. A deputy ...
http://oig.usaid.gov/node/8155
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... 7, 2023, terror attack against Israel. The US Agency for International Development's Office of Inspector General (USAID) submitted 101 more ...
https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/more-than-100-unrwa-st…
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Claim 5: “In February 2025, President Trump signed an executive order pulling US funding for UNRWA”
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Claim 6: “One of the UNRWA staffers was a deputy school principal who also served as an al-Qassam deputy commander.”
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The evidence mentions a school principal/deputy principal involved in the attacks as a member of Hamas's East Jabaliya Battalion and the al-Qassam Brigades.
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web search NEUTRAL — The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) supplies the starkest illustration.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22692/united-nations-alib…
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web search NEUTRAL — القناة الرسمية والوحيدة لكتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام - فلسطين الموقع الرسمي لكتائب القسام: www.alqassam.ps.
https://t.me/qassambrigades
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web search NEUTRAL — Al-Qassam Brigades, also known as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, are the military wing of the Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist organization, Hamas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qassam_Brigades
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Claim 7: “One of those teachers even moved anti-tank missiles to assist the terror group during the Oct. 7 massacre.”
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Web search results specifically mention a teacher with orders to bring two anti-tank missiles to a location during the October 7 attacks.
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web search NEUTRAL — The relationship between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and Israel is a feature of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNRWA_and_Israel
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... More than 100 staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees have been referred for suspension or ...
https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/more-than-100-unrwa-st…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 14, 2026 ... UNRWA, the United Nations agency established to provide relief and services to Palestinian refugees, is now at the center of a sweeping US ...
https://www.facebook.com/StandWithUs/posts/unrwa-the-united-…
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Claim 8: “Five employees of the UN agency had been teachers while simultaneously serving as military or intelligence officials in Hamas or its affiliated terror forces in the Gaza Strip.”
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Multiple sources confirm that at least five employees held teaching positions while serving as military or intelligence officials for Hamas.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of 3 May 2026, at least 75,811 people (73,770+ Palestinians and 2,039+ Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Foreig…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA, pronounced ) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA's m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNRWA
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The relationship between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and Israel is a feature of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. For decades, UNRWA has …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNRWA_and_Israel
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Claim 9: “More than 100 staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees have been referred for suspension or debarment from taking US taxpayer dollars after a federal watchdog found they had helped Hamas carry out the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack against Israel.”
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Multiple independent web search results from June 2026 confirm that the USAID OIG referred over 100 UNRWA staff for suspension or debarment due to ties to Hamas and participation in the October 7 attacks.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 24, 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump announced the immediate firing of at least 17 inspectors general at federal government cabinet departments and agencies. The late-night mass dismissal …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_U.S._inspec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the United States, office of inspector general (OIG) is a generic term for the oversight division of a federal, state, or local government agency aimed at preventing inefficient or unlawful operati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_inspector_general_(U…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is a statutory agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government. Founded in 1961, it was formerly the world's large…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Inter…
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Claim 10: “more than $839 million flowed to the agency from international contributors that year.”
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Claim 11: “A total of 1,500 UNRWA staff are being looked at, according to the Washington Free Beacon.”
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Claim 12: “the attack that killed 1,200 in Israel — including 46 US citizens”
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The death toll of approximately 1,200 and the inclusion of 46 US citizens is confirmed by both Wikipedia and official US government summaries (Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Middle East is experiencing an ongoing series of interrelated wars, conflicts, and heightened instability as a result of the Gaza war and genocide. These have primarily consisted of conflicts betw…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_crisis_(2023–pr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
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Claim 13: “Another deputy school principal was also a squad leader in a Khan Younis brigade.”
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Directly corroborated by multiple web search results stating a second deputy school principal was a squad leader in a Khan Younis brigade.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gush Katif Airport (ICAO: LLAZ) is a small abandoned airfield in Gaza Strip, approximately three kilometres (2 mi) north of the town of Khan Yunis, and adjacent to the UNRWA Khan Yunis refugee camp. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gush_Katif_Airport
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Khan Yunis (Arabic: خان يونس, lit. 'khan (caravanserai) [of] Yunis'), also spelled Khan Younis or Khan Yunus, is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and serves as the capital of the Khan Yun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Khan Yunis refugee camp, also called Khan Yunis Camp (Arabic: مخيم خان يونس), is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Khan Yunis Governorate just west of the city of Khan Yunis and two kilometers eas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis_refugee_camp
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Claim 14: “The UN’s annual budget also sets aside around $70 million for the Palestinian aid agency.”
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Claim 15: “That will keep all of them from getting any US foreign aid funding for the next 10 years.”
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Claim 16: “the USAID OIG probe has been running parallel to a federal criminal investigation into Hamas’ ties with UNRWA.”
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Claim 17: “USAID OIG’s “active and ongoing investigation” has either suspended or debarred 108 individuals for “having participated in the October 7 and/or having Hamas affiliation,””
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The number 108 is explicitly mentioned in a headline and report regarding the debarment of UNRWA staff for participation in October 7 or Hamas affiliation.
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